British Affairs

With the Royal Wedding (yes, it's getting capital letters) dominating the news for the past week and half in both Britain and America you'd think I would want to make it the topic of my debut blog; I'm afraid that anyone looking for a rant on the Royal Wedding is going to have to be satisfied with the handful of lines I'm going to throw down out of charity.

I really don't care about the Royal Wedding. I can't differentiate between Prince William and Prince Harry on sight, I didn't take part in any street parties to celebrate the union of the future monarchs of the United Kingdom, and the only opinion I have on the matter is a mild annoyance at how difficult it's been trying to find other news in the meantime. I didn't even watch it on TV, and I'm honestly not looking forward to the media being full of speculation about any future children the moment they get off their honeymoon.

There, that's all you get about that. What I really wanted to talk about was this man:

"So is this more or less friendly than Hitler?"

Now if you're reading this from outside of the United Kingdom you might not know who this man is. Actually, even if you do live there you still might want a reminder. This is David Cameron, leader of the British Conservative Party (or Tories as they're also known), current Prime Minister in the coalition government (if you don't know what that means go to wikipedia or some shit, I'm not going to try and explain such a horrible mess) and he's currently in trouble for making sexist remarks towards the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Angela Eagle.

What sexist remark could he possibly have made to cause such an uproar in English newspapers? Could he have told her to get back to the kitchen? Maybe he demanded a sandwich in the House of Lords? No, I believe his exact words were "Calm down, dear". Fuck me, right? That's some heavy misogynistic shit right there. I apologise if any of my readers are offended by the repetition of this crime against the females of the species.

"Is it because I have ovaries?"

After reading about Mr Cameron's reputation, and just how he came by it, I'd rather not be the one to defend this man, but seriously? Angela Eagle was heckling him as he gave a talk about the National Health Service, David Cameron whipped out his sexist atrocity, and in response she cried sexism. I'm not so much disappointed by her response, I've come to accept that there are a lot of thin-skinned people in this world as well as those who would try and abuse racial/sexual/anythingunderthefuckingsun tolerance to their advantage (although I was sure that the Western world had moved on from crying about sexism); I'm sorely disappointed by those members of the media who jumped to her side instead of telling her to grow the fuck up.

As a collective Western culture we have become absolutely terrified of offending people, in case they should play the PC card (it's not a component for your computer, it stands for Politically Correct card). Instances like this just go to prove my point when I say that this fear is detrimental to the levels of tolerance in this day and age. Once in a while it'd be nice to see someone who cried wolf get eaten.

An artist's impression of Angela Eagle sniffing the air for traces of sexism.